Natural Living
Tips and tutorials on making your own all-natural home and personal care products, growing and crafting your own herbal medicine, using essential oils and eliminating toxins from your home and life.
DIY Dandelion Salve for Healing
This DIY dandelion salve uses just three simple ingredients, including dandelion-infused oil made with dandelions picked right from your own backyard! It's an herbal healing salve that works wonders for sore muscles, helps to heal minor cuts and scrapes and can be...
All-Natural Homemade Toothpaste Recipe
This all-natural homemade toothpaste recipe is made with just four simple ingredients that are good for both your body and your bank account! I’m on a personal mission to replace every commercially-made, toxic product in our home with homemade,...
How to Use Yarrow to Cure Almost Any Ailment
As far as weeds go, yarrow is definitely one you want growing in your garden. It’s a powerhouse of a plant, packed with medicinal properties to help cure everything from fevers and colds to bleeding, bruises and everything in between. Yarrow...
DIY Bath Salts with Essential Oils
I started making my own bath salts with essential oils about 3 years ago at Christmas. They instantly gained a permanent spot in my homemade repertoire. I couldn’t believe how easy they were to make! Just a few simple ingredients, a Mason...
Essential Oil Diffuser Blends for Christmas
These 10 essential oil diffuser blends for Christmas will have your home smelling like the holidays the all-natural way with just one easy push of your diffuser button! I love my diffuser. When I was gifted my first set of essential oils,...
How to Get Started With Essential Oils
By guest contributor Jade Cardy of Yurtigo. I've always liked essential oils. I used to buy them to diffuse in my apartment to make the room smell nice. Or I would make a body spray to make myself smell nice. I had no idea the health benefits...
DIY Cookie Cutter Birdseed Ornaments
These easy DIY birdseed ornaments make a perfect homemade gift at Christmas. They also make a nice ornament for your tree and serve a functional purpose by feeding hungry songbirds in winter. And all you to make them is a bit of birdseed,...
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Hi! I’m Anna, and I’m a city girl turned modern homesteader who’s passionate about growing, cooking and preserving real food at home, creating my own herbal medicine and all-natural home and body care products, and working toward a simpler, more sustainable and self-sufficient life each and every day.
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